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ARMENIAN REPUBLIC]. Autograph manuscript, in Armenian, in the hand of an unknown individual, recording the first-hand narratives of 101 young orphan boys who survived the holocaust in Turkish Armenia 1918-1919, particularly in the district of Van (pr...

Auction 09.06.1999
09.06.1999
Schätzpreis
25.000 $ - 35.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
46.000 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 155

ARMENIAN REPUBLIC]. Autograph manuscript, in Armenian, in the hand of an unknown individual, recording the first-hand narratives of 101 young orphan boys who survived the holocaust in Turkish Armenia 1918-1919, particularly in the district of Van (pr...

Auction 09.06.1999
09.06.1999
Schätzpreis
25.000 $ - 35.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
46.000 $
Beschreibung:

ARMENIAN REPUBLIC]. Autograph manuscript, in Armenian, in the hand of an unknown individual, recording the first-hand narratives of 101 young orphan boys who survived the holocaust in Turkish Armenia 1918-1919, particularly in the district of Van (present-day Turkey), recorded orally from orphans resident in the Amiran Orphanage in Erevan, late 1918 to early 1919. Folio, 204 pp., neatly inscribed in ink in a cursive Armenian hand in a ruled ledger book, each victim's account illustrated with a small photograph pasted in (some slightly oxidized, a few missing), binding badly worn, spine perished, the pages embrittled, with scattered marginal defects and tears, some chips missing at corners. [ With ]: An additional narrative, 34pp., 8vo, paper wrappers, containing an extended relation of Karekin Zakarian, an orphan from the province of Erzeroum, with photograph; A group photograph of the orphans with various adult officials of the institution, probably Yerevan, ca. 1919; two maps of the region. THE ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST, 1918-1920: VERY LITTLE CONTEMPORARY WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION OF THESE EVENTS IS EXTANT A remarkable survival, this manuscript provides rare documentation--on a very personal level--of one of the darker chapters of modern history: the Turkish campaigns against the indigenous Armenian populations of certain districts within its borders in 1918-1920. The narratives preserved here--taken from children orphaned by these cataclysmic events--range from rather brief, factual accounts to extended records of persecution, harrowing suffering, flight, near-starvation, courage and miraculous survival. The young men who recounted these poignant personal histories were between seven and 17 years of age when they did so. The adult who patiently and meticulously collected and recorded them with such dedication, is likely to have had some association with the Erevan Orphanage, and clearly had a deep personal commitment to preserving these accounts for history. Most of the individual narratives are headed with the name of the boy, his age, and details of his town or village. Generally, these lie in the district of Van, the main center of Turkish Armenia during the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Prior to 1920, families of Armenian origin formed a majority in that district. At the outbreak of World War I, the Turkish government, anxious to remove a troublesome minority from a sensitive border region and to end ethnic unrest, instituted a campaign to systematically remove the Armenian population. This drastic policy, often carried out with great brutality, ended in the outright killing of many men and boys and the imprisonment of others, while thousands of women, children and old people were sent on forced marches into exile on which thousands died. In the district capitol of Van, the residents took up arms and resisted the Turkish military and were eventually rescued by the intervention of the Russian Army. Surrounding suburbs, small villages and rural areas, however, were not so fortunate. The villages of Bargri, Arjesh and Hayotz Dzor, for example, suffered massacres and forceful deportations (some of the accounts included here relate to those localities). The orphans, all from the Van region, survived and made their way on foot to Bayazid, then under Russian occupation, and from there to Igdir (near Mt. Ararat), to the See of the Armenian Church in Etchmiadzin (Ejmiadsin) and finally to Erevan. After the establishment of the short-lived Armenian Republic (1918-1920) the orphans were cared for in the Amiran Orphanage in Erevan, where their personal accounts were recorded. As one, orphan Grigor Trchunian relates: "I was born in Van in 1906. I had a father, mother, three brothers, and a sister. When the war began my father, who was a medic, was taken into [drafted?] the Turkish Army. He became ill and died...I studied at the American missionary school and had completed second grade when we were forced into exile. My mother and b

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 155
Auktion:
Datum:
09.06.1999
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

ARMENIAN REPUBLIC]. Autograph manuscript, in Armenian, in the hand of an unknown individual, recording the first-hand narratives of 101 young orphan boys who survived the holocaust in Turkish Armenia 1918-1919, particularly in the district of Van (present-day Turkey), recorded orally from orphans resident in the Amiran Orphanage in Erevan, late 1918 to early 1919. Folio, 204 pp., neatly inscribed in ink in a cursive Armenian hand in a ruled ledger book, each victim's account illustrated with a small photograph pasted in (some slightly oxidized, a few missing), binding badly worn, spine perished, the pages embrittled, with scattered marginal defects and tears, some chips missing at corners. [ With ]: An additional narrative, 34pp., 8vo, paper wrappers, containing an extended relation of Karekin Zakarian, an orphan from the province of Erzeroum, with photograph; A group photograph of the orphans with various adult officials of the institution, probably Yerevan, ca. 1919; two maps of the region. THE ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST, 1918-1920: VERY LITTLE CONTEMPORARY WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION OF THESE EVENTS IS EXTANT A remarkable survival, this manuscript provides rare documentation--on a very personal level--of one of the darker chapters of modern history: the Turkish campaigns against the indigenous Armenian populations of certain districts within its borders in 1918-1920. The narratives preserved here--taken from children orphaned by these cataclysmic events--range from rather brief, factual accounts to extended records of persecution, harrowing suffering, flight, near-starvation, courage and miraculous survival. The young men who recounted these poignant personal histories were between seven and 17 years of age when they did so. The adult who patiently and meticulously collected and recorded them with such dedication, is likely to have had some association with the Erevan Orphanage, and clearly had a deep personal commitment to preserving these accounts for history. Most of the individual narratives are headed with the name of the boy, his age, and details of his town or village. Generally, these lie in the district of Van, the main center of Turkish Armenia during the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Prior to 1920, families of Armenian origin formed a majority in that district. At the outbreak of World War I, the Turkish government, anxious to remove a troublesome minority from a sensitive border region and to end ethnic unrest, instituted a campaign to systematically remove the Armenian population. This drastic policy, often carried out with great brutality, ended in the outright killing of many men and boys and the imprisonment of others, while thousands of women, children and old people were sent on forced marches into exile on which thousands died. In the district capitol of Van, the residents took up arms and resisted the Turkish military and were eventually rescued by the intervention of the Russian Army. Surrounding suburbs, small villages and rural areas, however, were not so fortunate. The villages of Bargri, Arjesh and Hayotz Dzor, for example, suffered massacres and forceful deportations (some of the accounts included here relate to those localities). The orphans, all from the Van region, survived and made their way on foot to Bayazid, then under Russian occupation, and from there to Igdir (near Mt. Ararat), to the See of the Armenian Church in Etchmiadzin (Ejmiadsin) and finally to Erevan. After the establishment of the short-lived Armenian Republic (1918-1920) the orphans were cared for in the Amiran Orphanage in Erevan, where their personal accounts were recorded. As one, orphan Grigor Trchunian relates: "I was born in Van in 1906. I had a father, mother, three brothers, and a sister. When the war began my father, who was a medic, was taken into [drafted?] the Turkish Army. He became ill and died...I studied at the American missionary school and had completed second grade when we were forced into exile. My mother and b

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 155
Auktion:
Datum:
09.06.1999
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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